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WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, May 30, to present new findings from the Mars Science Laboratory Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) aboard the rover Curiosity.

The journal Science has embargoed details until 2 p.m. May 30.

The briefing participants are:

-- Donald M. Hassler, RAD principal investigator and program director, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio
-- Cary Zeitlin, principal scientist, SwRI
-- Eddie Semones, spaceflight radiation health officer, NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston
-- Chris Moore, deputy director of advanced exploration systems, NASA Headquarters, Washington

For dial-in information, media representatives should e-mail their name, affiliation and telephone number to Trent Perrotto at trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov by noon May 30.

SwRI and Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, built RAD with funding from NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate and Germany's national aerospace research center, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project. NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington manages the Mars Exploration Program.

Visuals will be posted at the start of the teleconference on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory website at:

http://go.nasa.gov/curiositytelecon

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA's website at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

MSL Media Teleconference

02.20.13

NASA is hosting a media teleconference at noon PST (3 p.m. EST) today, Feb. 20, to provide an update on the Mars rover Curiosity mission.

Audio and visuals of the event will be streamed live online

at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl

Participants:

Scott McCloskey, rover planner and drill systems engineer for Curiosity, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

Avi Okon, rover planner and drill cognizant engineer for Curiosity, JPL

Louise Jandura, sample system chief engineer for Curiosity, JPL

Daniel Limonadi, lead systems engineer for Curiosity's surface sampling and science system, JPL

Joel Hurowitz, sampling system scientist for Curiosity, JPL

McCloskey - 1

First Curiosity drilling sample in the scoop

› Full image and caption

McCloskey - 2

Schematic drawings showing a top view and a cutaway view of a section of the drill on NASA's Curiosity rover